December 26, 2023

Embracing Torah to Face the War

On Simhat Torah, we set out on two journeys: our planned-for journey through the weekly Torah reading, and a harrowing voyage down the path of loss and war. The second trek challenges us daily, while the first helped Rachel Sharansky Danziger through each challenge posed along the way. As the two looped into each other, they changed her understanding of them both.
December 24, 2023

TRADITION: Year in Review

You are no doubt inundated with end-of-year donation requests for worthy causes. Please accept this update not as an appeal for your support but as a year-end inventory of what TRADITION has contributed to you, our readers. This year our Journal of Orthodox Jewish Thought undertook important new ventures, made new achievements, and delivered engaging and enlightening scholarship in the four installments of Volume #55. Our editor Jeffrey Saks reviews 2023’s highlights here….
December 21, 2023

Shalom Carmy’s Milestone

With the conclusion of this academic semester Rabbi Shalom Carmy, esteemed editor emeritus of TRADITION, reaches the milestone of 50 years of teaching at Yeshiva University. To mark the occasion we are sharing this link to "Divrei Shalom: Collected Editor’s Notes," edited by Avraham Wein with an introduction by Yitzchak Blau, which was published in 2019 as he stepped down from editor's position at our journal. We are pleased to make that entire volume available as a free e-book. 
December 18, 2023

Judah & Joseph

How could Judah convince an Egyptian official (unbeknownst to Judah, none other than the long-lost Joseph) to enslave an innocent man and let a convicted thief go free? Judah rises to the challenge magnificently. Read about the epic confrontation between Joseph and Judah in Hillel J. Chiel’s essay from the TRADITION Archives.